March 2018 Global Defence & Security Industry - Military News

Leonardo’s “Falco” family of Remotely-Piloted Air Vehicles (RPAs) have together logged more than 15,000 hours of operational flight. The milestone was announced by the Company at UMEX, the United Arab Emirates’ specialist unmanned systems exhibition.

The goal, as Col. Geoffrey A. Norman, force development division chief at Army HQ, claimed it, is to equip infantry soldiers with an automatic rifle “that fires a small bullet at the pressure equivalent to what a tank would fire.”

The Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj.Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, announced the Guard Corps’ plan to boost drone and helicopter capabilities due to their decisive roles during operations.

The People’s Republic of China has offered equipment valued $6 Mn to the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) to improve its disaster preparedness and response capabilities. The equipment comprises 4x4 vehicles, a mobile kitchen, a refrigerator van, a tractor and a vessel.

Best Grup, a Turkish defense company based in Ankara, is set to export its military vehicle’s remote-control systems to the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates in the near future, an executive of the company has stated.

“Listen to us, now!”. A clear warning to the United States by Vladimir Putin made from Moscow this 1st March, Russia is creating the latest weapons in response to the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM). “The United States did not meet Russia halfway on the issue”, President Vladimir Putin said in his State of the Nation Address.

New counterbattery radars Zoopark-1M were delivered to the artillery formation of the 41st combined arms army of the Central Military District deployed in Kemerovo region, the district said on February 28, 2018.

On February 2, Slovenia became the latest customer to choose the Artec GmbH Boxer 8x8 wheeled armoured vehicle, according to an official announcement. The country's government confirmed its intention to join the Boxer multinational program within the framework of the Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR).

India's Anti Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) NAG were successfully flight-tested today in desert conditions against two tank targets at different ranges and timings, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said on February 28, 2018.